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Show HN: Deckchair – Holiday Management for Small Teams

33 pointsby squiggy22over 9 years ago

11 comments

freshyillover 9 years ago
This looks nice, but in a company that requires us to use a very clunky (but improving!) ADP site to actually file a time sheet and manage/request time off, this would just be an extra step on top of steps we already need to take.
jholmanover 9 years ago
s&#x2F;abcent&#x2F;absent&#x2F;<p>s&#x2F;your going&#x2F;you&#x27;re going&#x2F; (or for style reasons perhaps s&#x2F;your going to&#x2F;you will&#x2F; )<p>There are some weird capitalization issues, too (e.g. &quot;Simple, Easy to use&quot;, e.g. &quot;Slack integration&quot; in a list where every other entry is all-words-capitalized)<p>I&#x27;d suggest that in general, your copy feels a little choppy to me, and if&#x2F;when you start making a little money, I&#x27;d pay someone to fix it up.<p>HTH
jlaroccoover 9 years ago
I agree with jholman about getting the text improved. Lots of weird tense changes and awkward sentences through out.<p>That&#x27;s easy enough to fix, though. I&#x27;m more interested how this compares to (or integrates with) third party software like ADP and UltiPro. Seems like this would be targeted to a really small niche of companies that are too big to handle holidays informally, but too small to buy a more full featured HRIS.
kgrinover 9 years ago
Channeling patio11 here, but CHARGE MORE! Or, more to the point, have some ways to price-discriminate. Maybe on # of employees; maybe on features; maybe integrations or SSO or whatever.<p>Obviously you&#x27;re not (currently) targeting Big Enterprise, but even within your present target market there&#x27;s got to be a difference in how much value you&#x27;re delivering for different clients... price based on that!
Kunlunover 9 years ago
Pretty nice to handle holidays. However the copy needs a bit of work as well as some prices of the UI&#x2F;UX. For example:<p>- First steps you have the text<p><pre><code> - Step 1: &quot;Save Step 1&quot; - Step 2: &quot;Save and Proceed&quot; - Step 3: &quot;Add employee&quot; </code></pre> You should align the text of each button such &quot;Next step&quot; and &quot;Finish&quot;.<p>- Provide more text on each of the step to give better context with perhaps an example or an average for a specific country (selecting a country and auto-completing these fields with the average would be nice).<p>- Lot of lost space in Step 2 Setup Statutory Holidays. You could make the numbers bigger and space out evenly the selected days. Also it was quite weird to have an extra step with the selected days starred.<p>- Provide integration with 3rd party platforms: Google Calendar, Slack, login with Google account, etc.<p>- Provide a way to delete an account. How do I do that right now?<p>All in all it is pretty cool!
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rtpgover 9 years ago
Looks pretty nice, nice and simple. I didn&#x27;t sign up because I am not managing people&#x27;s vacations, but I definitely would if I were that person where I work. Value proposition is immediately obvious. Great name too<p>If you&#x27;re serious about making money off of this, though, I&#x27;d highly recommend some form of per-seat pricing.<p>Per-seat pricing aligns the usefulness of the app with how much people are paying. Would you really want (for example) a 100 person team to be only giving you 15 pounds a month for what is probably _days_ of saved administrative time per year? Off the top of my head $15&#x2F;user&#x2F;year seems like a good price to deal with vacationing. Though ideally that number is MAX_NUMBER_YOU_CAN_CONVINCE_PEOPLE_TO_CHARGE&#x2F;user&#x2F;year
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TimJRobinsonover 9 years ago
Does it have any kind of calendar integration? If it can integrate with our teams google calendar this is perfect for us.
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jsingletonover 9 years ago
Looks interesting. It won&#x27;t be hard to do UX better than the competition (like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.myhrtoolkit.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.myhrtoolkit.com</a>). Getting people to migrate from their current system will be difficult though.<p>You might want to update that iPad screenshot. Use the new look iOS.
solomatovover 9 years ago
Provide a price in dollars. People outside of UK don&#x27;t know what the value of pound is.
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mipapageover 9 years ago
Perhaps its just me, but use a deckchair for the logo, or place one on the beach?
arturro_over 9 years ago
we have created similar app which we open sourced at www.github.com&#x2F;diacode&#x2F;holidays we have pretty nice ui and slack integration, check it out